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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Very good
OVERVIEW
UNDP is an original IATI signatory and began publishing to IATI in November 2011. UNDP should be congratulated for making significant improvements to its IATI publication and for updating its implementation schedule to be more ambitious, including plans to publish to 88% of IATI fields. UNDP updated its Information Disclosure Policy in June 2013, expanding disclosure and clarifying exceptions. Together with EIB, it leads on disclosure policies amongst multilateral organisations included in the Index, following best case practices on clarifying exceptions for internal deliberations. UNDP recently began co-hosting the IATI Secretariat, leading a consortium with UNOPS, Ghana, Sweden and Development Initiatives.
ANALYSIS
UNDP scores 83.4%, placing it in the very good category. It has shown consistent improvement in the publication of information on its activities and is amongst the biggest improvers in the 2013 Index. UNDP achieves high scores on all indicator sub-groups, scoring over 90% of the total possible points for organisation planning and activity classification information; over 80% for commitment and organisation financial information; and over 70% for activity financial and performance data. It scores just over 60% for activity documents. Although UNDP has started publishing results data in its IATI feed, it needs to improve the coverage of this data. UNDP has also started publishing links to contracts and tenders for some of its projects in its IATI data. However, at the time of data collection, these were available for less than 1% of its current projects. As the coverage was insufficiently comprehensive, these indicators were scored manually via the survey. Of the 22 indicators measured by format, UNDP publishes information on 21 in IATI XML format.
RECOMMENDATIONS
- UNDP should continue to improve its publication to IATI so it is comprehensive and uses all fields, including publishing more information it its organisation file.
- It should improve its publication process so that it can publish high quality data straight out of its systems, more frequently (preferably monthly) and consistently.
DONOR PROFILE
First published to IATI:
Nov-11
Data was found in the following formats where relevant:
95% IATI
0% CSV/Excel
0% PDF
0% Website
5% Not Published